Jarrod explains how he discovered the world of podcasting during a long road trip with a friend, going on to enjoy shows about outdoor reaction, news and the Apple fan community. He also elaborates on his experience of starting his own website, HeyDingus, along with listening to various Apple-centric podcasts—making particular reference to 20 Macs for 2020, a show by writer and podcaster Jason Snell, which blended tech podcasting with a narrative journalism format.

Podcast case study: 20 Macs for 2020 (listener)

Find Jarrod at HeyDingus.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes

The Operating System for Me 00:00:00

• Apple Inc.
  
  
  
  
  • iTunes
  
  
  • Apple Events video podcast
  
  
  • Stevenote
  
  
  • Original Apple podcast icon
  
  


• Michigan
  
  
  
  
  • Michigan Ice Fest: The History of the Oldest Ice Climbing Festival in the US
  
  


• Ice climbing


• The Dirtbag Diaries
  
  
  
  
  • Information about Fitz Cahall and others who work on the podcast
  
  


• Talk radio


• iPod nano


• Apple’s website in 2006 (courtesy of the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine)


• Microsoft Windows


• Mac (computer) and macOS


• Scouting


• MacRumors


• Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
  
  
  
  
  • Casey Liss
  
  
  • John Siracusa
  
  
  • Marco Arment
  
  


• 9to5Mac


• Six Colors


• 512 Pixels


• Ars Technica

Entertainment and Production 08:30

• Relay FM
  
  
  
  
  • Clockwise
  
  
  • Connected
  
  
  • Cortex
  
  
  • Mac Power Users
  
  
  • Reconcilable Differences
  
  
  • Thoroughly Considered
  
  
  • Upgrade
  
  


• AppStories


• Apple News Today


• The Good News Podcast


• Core Intuition


• Dithering


• Hemispheric Views


• The Rebound


• Ruminate


• The Talk Show with John Gruber


• Vergecast


• Your Daily Lex


• Overcast


• Pocket Casts


• Castro


• RSS
  
  
  
  
  • RSS reader (or news aggregator)
  
  


• Squarespace


• HTML


• CSS


• Blog


• Blot


• Twitter (rebranding to X at the time of this podcast episode’s publication)

A Place that I Own 20:56

• HeyDingus


• Virtual assistant
  
  
  
  
  • Siri
  
  
  • Google Assistant
  
  


• Shortcuts (app)


• Micro.blog
  
  
  
  
  • Manton Reece (creator of the service)
  
  

20 Macs for 2020 24:02

• 20 Macs for 2020 is a podcast that was delivered in three media (or formats), including an audio-only podcast at Relay FM, a video playlist at 512 Pixels on YouTube and written essays at Six Colors. The podcast creator and host, Jason Snell, can be found at Six Colors or on Mastodon.


• ’20 Macs for 2020’ (Jarrod’s blog post about the show from January 2021)


• iMac


• Macintosh 128K (or the original Macintosh)


• Power Macintosh


• Stratechery

Accessibility 31:10

• Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility


• Wordle


• Emoji


• Federico Viticci
  
  
  
  
  • Browse the MacStories Shortcuts Archive.
  
  


• iOS 17

A Hidden Side of Myself 33:53

• View the 7 Things category in Jarrod’s blog archive.


• Notes (Apple)


• JavaScript


• Jarrod’s stor